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Navajo spoons : Indian artistry and the souvenir trade, 1880s-1940s / by Cindra Kline ; photography by Kyle A. Castle and Blair Clark.
Penn Museum Library E99.N3 K53 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kline, Cindra.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Navajo silverwork--History.
- Navajo silverwork.
- Navajo Indians--Industries.
- Navajo Indians.
- Navajo business enterprises--History.
- Navajo business enterprises.
- Souvenir spoons--Southwest, New--History.
- Souvenir spoons.
- Silverwork, Victorian--Southwest, New--History.
- Silverwork, Victorian.
- Railroad travel--Southwest, New--History.
- Railroad travel.
- Tourism--Southwest, New--History.
- Tourism.
- History.
- New Southwest.
- Physical Description:
- 118 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Fe, N.M. : Museum of New Mexico Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- Navajo-made souvenir spoons once were all the rage sparked by the Victorian love of cutlery and endured through World War II with the nation's obsession with commemorative silver. These spoons are now ardently sought after by collectors and institutions alike as rare mementos of Navajo artistry. This book, the first to take an historical look at Navajo spoons, examines the Navajo smiths' incredible skill and invention that is evident in the functional teaspoons, servers, and sugar shells and explores spoons as a canvas of ethnic art.
- Contents:
- 1 Stirring Up Tourism 19
- 2 Navajo Silver Comes of Age 37
- 3 Traders, Trains, and Teaspoons 43
- 4 Silver Words and Thunderbirds 59
- 5 The Making of a Navajo Spoon 75
- 6 End of a Phenomenon 91.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 112-113) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0890133913
- OCLC:
- 47238173
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